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← 475 MASS 611 - Commonwealth v. Campbell

Commonwealth v. Campbell’s Empirical Analysis

2016

Citation profile

15
cited by 15 later decisions
2
states following
February 2022
most recently cited

15 state decisions

Relationships

Relies on Brinegar v. United States · Maryland v. Pringle · Florida v. Wells · Commonwealth v. Scott · Commonwealth v. Mercado

Most-quoted passages

The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “[W]hoever uses a motor vehicle without authority knowing that such use is unauthorized shall ... be punished.”
    2 later decisions quote this exact passage
  2. “[a] renter's decision to allow a person who is not a permitted driver according to the rental agreement to drive a rental vehicle may be a breach of that agreement, but it does not also result in a violation of criminal law.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
  3. “the absence of the defendant's name on the rental agreement ... by itself could not establish probable cause to conclude that the defendant was in violation of the statute [G. L. c. 90, § 24 (2) ( a ) ],”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage

How this case has been treated — in progress

Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.